Angel


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1 Inferior deities or demigods in polytheistic religion.
2 The philosophical consideration of pure intelligences, spiritual substances, suprahuman persons.
3 The celestial motors or secondary prime movers, the intelligences attached to the celestial bodies.
4 Our knowledge of immaterial beings.
5 The conception of angels in Judeo-Christian doctrine.
6 The first creatures of God, their place in the order of creation.
7 The angelic nature.
8 The aeviternity and incorruptibility of angels.
9 The angelic intellect and angelic knowledge.
10 The angelic will and angelic love.
11 Angelic action, its characteristics in general.
12 The angelic hierarchy, the inequality, order, and number of the angels and their relation to one another.
13 Comparison of angels with men and with disembodied souls, their relation to the blessed in the heavenly choir.
14 The distinction and comparison of the good and the bad angels.
15 The origin of the division between angels and demons, the sin of Lucifer or Satan.
16 The society of the demons, the rule of Satan over the powers of darkness.
17 The role of the angels in the government of the universe.
18 The ministry of the good angels in the affairs of men, guardianship.
19 The intervention of the demons in the affairs of men, temptation, possession.
20 God and Satan.
21 Warfare between the powers of light and darkness, their struggle for dominion over man.
22 Lucifer in the service of God.
23 Criticism and satire with respect to the belief in angels and demons.


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